by L.D. Lapinski (j Lapinski)
Twelve-year-old Flick Hudson
wanders into a dusty, unassuming travel agency as she explores her new home in
Little Wyverns. The only person in the shop is a dapper teenage boy drinking a
cup of tea. It all seems quite ordinary and boring. But as you might guess, the
Strangeworlds Travel Agency is not. It is the front for an incredible gateway
to exciting worlds. All you have to do is step into a suitcase.
It’s a book of magic, of worlds
with imaginative scenery, and of characters who are helpers and others who are
takers. There’s eerie danger and the chance that if you enter another world,
you might not return.
Young Flick has always done what
she needed to do to help her parents make ends meet and take care of her baby
brother. She’s always been available and dependable. But when she agrees to
join the Strangworlds Travel Agency, her life becomes filled with action and
danger. And it gets even more precarious when she agrees to help custodian
Jonathan Mercator trace the footsteps of his lost father.
I especially enjoyed Strangeworlds Travel Agency because the worlds
Lapinski creates are truly unique. In one world, the characters bounce around
like they are flying off a trampoline. In another world, they visit a candy
shop that fills an entire sky-scraper. I also appreciated that even though it
is a juvenile book, there is an element of real danger and the chance that the
main character may never return. And even more tempting is the possibility of
returning to the imaginative world of Strangeworlds in future sequels. The Edge of the Ocean was released in April 2021 and number
three, The Secrets of the Stormforest is due out in April 2022.
Mysteries are left hanging; more thrillers need to be solved and more wrongs
need to be put right. It’s the perfect book for students third through fifth
grade who enjoy magic, other worlds, and mystery.
(If you enjoy this, you may also
wish to try The Last Shadow Warrior by Sam Subity, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau or The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann.)
( official Strangeworlds Travel Agency series page on the
official L.D.
Lapinski web site )
Recommended
by Cindy K.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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